portraiture
71Alan Thornhill — (b. 1921, London) is a British sculptor.He grew up in Fittleworth, West Sussex, attended Radley College, and then in 1939 went to New College, Oxford to read Modern History. In 1944 he returned to Oxford, having been released from the Army for… …
72painting — /payn ting/, n. 1. a picture or design executed in paints. 2. the act, art, or work of a person who paints. 3. the works of art painted in a particular manner, place, or period: a book on Flemish painting. 4. an instance of covering a surface… …
73sculpture — sculptural, adj. sculpturally, adv. /skulp cheuhr/, n., v., sculptured, sculpturing. n. 1. the art of carving, modeling, welding, or otherwise producing figurative or abstract works of art in three dimensions, as in relief, intaglio, or in the… …
74English school — Dominant school in painting in England from the 18th century to с 1850. From 1730 to 1750 two distinctive British forms of painting were perfected by William Hogarth: genre scenes depicting the modern moral subject, and the small scale group… …
75Mughal painting — Style of painting, confined mainly to book illustrations and miniatures, that evolved in India during the Mughal dynasty (16th–19th centuries). In the initial phases the technique often involved a team of artists: one determined the composition,… …
76Reynolds, Sir Joshua — born July 16, 1723, Plympton, Devon, Eng. died Feb. 23, 1792, London British portrait painter. Son of a clergyman schoolmaster, he was apprenticed to a London portraitist in 1740. His large group portrait The Eliot Family (с 1746) reveals the… …
77Art, Antiques, and Collections — ▪ 2003 Introduction In 2002 major exhibitions such as Documenta 11 reflected the diverse nature of contemporary art: artists from a variety of cultures received widespread recognition for work ranging from installation to video to painting …
78Cobbe portrait — The Cobbe portrait The Cobbe portrait is an early Jacobean panel painting of a gentleman which has been argued to be a life portrait of William Shakespeare. It is displayed at Hatchlands Park in Surrey, a National Trust property, and the portrait …
79portrayal — noun 1. acting the part of a character on stage; dramatically representing the character by speech and action and gesture (Freq. 1) • Syn: ↑characterization, ↑enactment, ↑personation • Derivationally related forms: ↑personate (for …
80Cecilia Beaux — Infobox Artist bgcolour = #6495ED name = Cecilia Beaux imagesize = caption = Georges Clemenceau by Cecilia Beaux (1920) birthname = birthdate = birth date |1855|5|1| location = Philadelphia, Pennsylvania deathdate = 1942 deathplace = Green Alley …
